I am 24F this year and amongst many other realisations, I began to realise that my size actually affects my life regardless of how hard I try.

What brought me to this point is that in the last 3 years, I have experienced two ruptured Achilles tendons, one on each leg. I am currently experiencing the second one. Every time I do any research about this injury, there is no content or information on it that is not centered around athletes. This injury is apparently really awful. But, it seems it is only awful if you are an athlete. You see, both times I was playing basketball, but I am not an athlete nor am I a straight-sized person.

I give this context to say, I am really struggling to come to terms with how difficult it is to be injured in a fat body, without equating it to it being BECAUSE I am fat, and if I had been smaller it would not have happened. I find myself formulating excuses and lies in my mind to validate both incidents, but I would not want to feel as though I have to do that to validate that I am having a hard time being injured in this way.

I am hoping to find anyone else here who has had a similar injury or any injury that has left them feeling so invalidated, and how you dealt with that injury. Everyone around me does not seem to understand or know anything that could help me mentally. I do not want to give up of course, but I can't help but feel close to it.